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New Bass Day (well... it was on Friday)

3toes

3toes

Aug 30, 2006
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Already posted in the Lakland thread, but figured I'd share with the rest of the group :)

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Got a Lakland Skyline Hollowbody equipped with Chi-Sonic pickups. This thing is great, plays incredibly easy. Sound is absolutely wonderful. VERY warm but retains clarity amazingly well. Excellent blend of vintage and modern tones.
 
#8
Mark Wilson said:
I'm looking for something like this!
Got a soundclip yet? Those Chi-Sonics are just insane.
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Not yet, hopefully tonight or tomorrow. I was hoping to put a set of La Bella flats on it, but my worn-in set didn't fit since they were cut for a different bass, and I had forgotten that I pulled the A-string from an unused spare-set to replace a dead/broken-core string. So for the moment it has some Chromes on it, but I'm ordering a replacement La Bella.

The rounds it shipped with sounded alright, but kind of carried a mid-scoop sound to my ears. Plus, a hollowbody just SCREAMS for flats imo :)

Like I said, in humbucker mode, the sound is just MASSIVE. The neck pickup carries the bottom, and the "bridge" carries the punch. And I put bridge in quotes simply because this pickup is so close to the "sweet-spot" I feel silly calling it a bridge pickup. It really does have a ton of bite and punch.

Single-coil mode produces a thinner, and broader sound. But again, incredibly clear and defined. Just not as much bottom as in humbucker mode.
 
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3toes said:
Not yet, hopefully tonight or tomorrow. I was hoping to put a set of La Bella flats on it, but my worn-in set didn't fit since they were cut for a different bass, and I had forgotten that I pulled the A-string from an unused spare-set to replace a dead/broken-core string. So for the moment it has some Chromes on it, but I'm ordering a replacement La Bella.

The rounds it shipped with sounded alright, but kind of carried a mid-scoop sound to my ears. Plus, a hollowbody just SCREAMS for flats imo :)

Like I said, in humbucker mode, the sound is just MASSIVE. The neck pickup carries the bottom, and the "bridge" carries the punch. And I put bridge in quotes simply because this pickup is so close to the "sweet-spot" I feel silly calling it a bridge pickup. It really does have a ton of bite and punch.

Single-coil mode produces a thinner, and broader sound. But again, incredibly clear and defined. Just not as much bottom as in humbucker mode.
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I just listened to the clips on the Lakland website. Would you say the general sound is much like the clip on the site?
 
#12
Mark Wilson said:
I just listened to the clips on the Lakland website. Would you say the general sound is much like the clip on the site?
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In terms of the roundwounds, yes absolutely so. As for the flats, since Chromes are on the brighter side of the flats spectrum in my experience... well, you see where I'm going with that.

But yes, I'd say the audio clips on the Lakland site are a good representation of the tones you can get from this bass.
 
#14
3toes said:
In terms of the roundwounds, yes absolutely so. As for the flats, since Chromes are on the brighter side of the flats spectrum in my experience... well, you see where I'm going with that.

But yes, I'd say the audio clips on the Lakland site are a good representation of the tones you can get from this bass.
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Good to know!!!
I was also asking because I wasn't sure if Lakland "tweaked" their soundclips for business.

Thanks man!
 
#15
Mark Wilson said:
Good to know!!!
I was also asking because I wasn't sure if Lakland "tweaked" their soundclips for business.

Thanks man!
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No problem. I think that's a fair concern to have.

Here's a quote from the page on the website talking about the recording process:

"I record all of the bass tracks on a Pro Tools system through a Demeter preamp and Apogee converters. No EQ is used at all in the recording of the basses. In mixdown, I generally use light compression on the basses, with a conservative 3:1 ratio. The compressor is a software-based McDSP CB-1. I set the tone controls wide open on all the basses and in the case of active basses, all EQ controls are set flat. The tracks are mastered with McDSP software. "

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